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Exploring Wonderland: Alice and Media Computation. SIGCSE 2010 Barbara Ericson Georgia Tech. Why use Media?. Media Computation is the special effects studio for Alice movies Stay in the movie making context Use Alice to reduce syntax frustration
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Exploring Wonderland: Alice and Media Computation SIGCSE 2010 Barbara Ericson Georgia Tech
Why use Media? • Media Computation is the special effects studio for Alice movies • Stay in the movie making context • Use Alice to reduce syntax frustration • Media Computation is a great way to cover material that is missing/weak in Alice 2.2 • Arrays with sounds and pictures • Strings – writing web pages • Inheritance and polymorphism
Sample Assignment • Create an Alice world that uses one of the sound manipulations from Media Computation • Change the frequency of the sound • Make a sound clip • Splice sounds together • Blend two or more sounds • Create an echo • Reverse a sound